FOX:
A West Virginia teenager who was arrested and suspended from school after he refused to remove an NRA T-shirt is back in class.
Fourteen-year-old Jared Marcum of Logan returned to Logan Middle School on Monday after serving a one-day suspension.
His father, Allen Lardieri, told 13 News that the situation was exaggerated and said, “I don’t see how anybody would have an issue with a hunting rifle and NRA put on a T-shirt, especially when policy doesn’t forbid it.”
The school district’s dress code prohibits any profanity, violence, discriminatory messages, but the report noted that gun images are not on the list.
“I will go to the ends of the earth, I will call people, I will write letters, I will do everything in the legal realm to make sure this does not happen again,” Lardieri said, according to the report.
Logan County Schools Superintendent Wilma Zigmond didn’t immediately return a telephone message Monday.
The teen’s lawyer, Ben White, says school administrators maintain that Marcum disrupted the educational process. He says Marcum was exercising his right to free speech and wasn’t disruptive.
Logan police arrested Marcum at the school last Thursday after he refused a teacher’s order to remove the shirt. White says prosecutors are reviewing the case to determine whether to file charges.
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Marcum wore the same shirt to school Monday. It displays the NRA logo and a hunting rifle.
Other students across Logan County wore similar shirts, which display the NRA logo and a hunting rifle, to school in a show of support for 14-year-old Jared Marcum, said his lawyer Ben White.
Logan County Schools Superintendent Wilma Zigmond didn’t immediately return a telephone message.
Look: while I understand the family’s frustration, I think we can solve what is becoming a recurring problem with educational disruption by inappropriately dressed students by requiring everyone — and not just students, because we need to be fair — to wear a simple brown khaki uniform, and to keep their hair to certain length. Also, I think disruptive jewelry and body art should be prohibited, so as not to give offense to those who are easily distracted by such things — and any and all scents be outlawed, to avoid causing allergic reactions, or just because someone somewhere simply isn’t down with a particular musk.
Peanuts and peanut butter? Fuck that nonsense. There’s no room in the public square for such potentially deadly legume products.
This is, after all, for the children. And if it’s the children who are determined to harm the children, well, then we have every right to punish and control the children. For the children. And if that means we have to punish ourselves to punish them, we should to willing to do so. For them.
The children.
— Either that, or we can hope the school board is so embarrassed by all of this that they publicly shame and discipline the “educator” who was terribly offended (and professionally retarded) by the shirt of a fourteen-year-old — a shirt promoting a natural and Constitutionally-protected right — that s/he demanded removal of said garment, and then brought in the police to further solidify the case for PC tyranny (and teenage toplessness).
It’s a pick ’em, really.
(h/t Darth Levin)
Non-compliance with the dress code will be punishable by death, and your family gets the bill for the cost of the bullet used.
Yeah, I really want to see the video “evidence”. I’ve got $10 bucks says the teacher started screaming.
Other students across Logan County wore similar shirts, which display the NRA logo and a hunting rifle, to school in a show of support for 14-year-old Jared Marcum, said his lawyer Ben White.
That’s awesome. Go kids, go!
Either khaki or olive drab, and it should be baggy and ill-fitting so the slender and the
fatstocky and the buxom and the awkward-n-gangly all look alike. And everyone should wear canvas sneakers. And for formal school events, there should be a dress uniform. Nehru jackets always look sharp!The “I am Spartacus” solidarity protest was heartening. There are at least 100 decent American kids left.
Also, we probably need to review the serial and model numbers on all of the school equipment, just to make sure those goddamn Christers haven’t snuck any propaganda in there.
Well, obviously.
This story was the subject of yesterday’s local morning drive-time radio talk-show, and I got to wondering about the teacher. It’s West Virginia. Everybody in West Virginia either has a gun or knows somebody who has a gun. So how does a teacher decide that a picture of a gun on a t-shirt requires an official response? Is he just one of those a-hole stickler for the rules types? Somebody who got indoctrinated into hoplophobia by the progressive propagandists in the Ed. Dept. where he got degree’d? Or is he some liberal do-gooder from some suburb in another state where liberal do-gooders abound?
So to cut a long story short the cynical bastard in me likes the idea of the teacher as some out of state missionary bringing the gospel of Progress to the benighted heathens living in intellectual and material semii-squalor (but not real squalor, like on, say a reservation in South Dakota or Wyoming, because who wants to live like that?).
funny how you never hear of anyone kicked out of school for wearing a Che tee-shirt.
Okiedokie, then.
The best part of their “disruption of the educational process” charge? He was confronted by the teacher in the school cafeteria. Didn’t disrupt any of his morning classes, though.
To continue with the school theme, Rich Santorum is going to go ahead with that speech in Grosse Pointe (South HS, my alma mater). Anyway – of the 85 or so teachers, only EIGHT are choosing to attend the speech.
8.
“I am the light of the world” (John 8:12) and “‘Let light shine out of darkness,'” (2 Corinthians 4:6)
You don’t suppose Trijicon was trying to say something about their optics, do you?
The speech was originally cancelled because the school superintendent wanted a copy of the speech first. For the childen. WHen asked – on the radio – other speakers said they have NEVER been asked for a copy of their speech before such an event.
Somebody with more talent than I possess ought to update Kipling with the Progressive Person in mind.
Either khaki or olive drab,
Brown.
Shirts.
Heh.
“The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from West Virginia”
Getting thrown out of school is bad enough (and wrong) but criminal charges? WTF! Conservatives need to fund these lawsuits just like the ACLU and the SPLC fund their lawsuits (the difference being this lawsuit is 100% meritorious).
Di, it only seems that way because of Congress.
If they left WV by way of eastern KY they’d say something … different.
This is what I was saying about Joe Manchin’s future plans, because his Senate seat is going to be in play if he keeps fucking around with the gun control crowd.
The school was clearly wrong since the t-shirt did not violate policy…but public schools need dress codes, even uniforms — not due to irresponsible children, but irresponsible parents who permit their kids out the door dressed like pimps and whores.
The best part of their “disruption of the educational process” charge? He was confronted by the teacher in the school cafeteria.
Isn’t the douchenozzle teacher the one that did all the disrupting? Do we know this teacher’s name yet?
Let’s hope the kid wins enough from the lawsuit to pay for a good private school.
“Wilma Zigmond.”
“Wilma.”
Could this whole kerfuffle be a result of our hyper-feminized K-12 schools?